Weirdest thing you've seen whilst sat in your car?
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J4CKO said:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3008186,-2.29658...
That help ? I stopped in front of the steps to get out of the way of traffic to sort my contact lens out which was driving me daft.
Lol I see what you mean now. That help ? I stopped in front of the steps to get out of the way of traffic to sort my contact lens out which was driving me daft.
Regular visitor to our local, same route every time, car could drive there on its own.
Coming back one night mate was adamant there was a field of ostriches. Convinced him he was pished but and carried on, as nothing there on the way out
Went past the field in daylight next day and there must have been 100 of the buggers legging around this field
Turned out the farmer was trying to get into the ostrich steak market, but over the next couple of months the occupancy got fewer and fewer until there was just one poor soul walking around wondering where all his mates had gone,
Was great fun telling people to turn left at the ostriches when going to the pub
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Oh and years ago, back in the late 60'swas holidaying near Wexford. Got chatting to the locals in the local and they were coming out with all the tales of leprechauns etc jumping out on visitors cars on the road we had to take on the way home, trying to put the fear of God into us.
Must have been about 1 am when we left and the mist was coming in from the sea in patches, The lights on the 100E were not the best and as i was going along the road rose up to a blind summit out of the mist in the middle of the road came the biggest white horse i have ever seen, and with the mist his nostril appeared to be breathing fire..All four of us changed underwear that night.
Coming back one night mate was adamant there was a field of ostriches. Convinced him he was pished but and carried on, as nothing there on the way out
Went past the field in daylight next day and there must have been 100 of the buggers legging around this field
Turned out the farmer was trying to get into the ostrich steak market, but over the next couple of months the occupancy got fewer and fewer until there was just one poor soul walking around wondering where all his mates had gone,
Was great fun telling people to turn left at the ostriches when going to the pub
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Oh and years ago, back in the late 60'swas holidaying near Wexford. Got chatting to the locals in the local and they were coming out with all the tales of leprechauns etc jumping out on visitors cars on the road we had to take on the way home, trying to put the fear of God into us.
Must have been about 1 am when we left and the mist was coming in from the sea in patches, The lights on the 100E were not the best and as i was going along the road rose up to a blind summit out of the mist in the middle of the road came the biggest white horse i have ever seen, and with the mist his nostril appeared to be breathing fire..All four of us changed underwear that night.
A few candidates, but the most unusual was probably a gangbang in progress in a Ford Fiesta.
I was 17, I was practicing my handbrake turns with a mate in a local car park one night. We stopped for a minute and were giggling at a couple getting hot'n'heavy in a Ford Fiesta with steamed-up windows. Then the door opened, bloke got out and did up his trousers just as his mate jumped over from the driver's seat to have a go. Then we noticed there was a third fella sat in the back waiting his turn. Sloppy thirds... lovely.
I also saw a very low-budget Batmobile (a Hyundai with fins made of card stuck on the roof and rear wings) pulled over on the A1(M) in rush hour, with the police talking to someone sat in the car who appeared to be dressed as Batman.
First and possibly last time I will put anything from my dashcam on the internet
I was 17, I was practicing my handbrake turns with a mate in a local car park one night. We stopped for a minute and were giggling at a couple getting hot'n'heavy in a Ford Fiesta with steamed-up windows. Then the door opened, bloke got out and did up his trousers just as his mate jumped over from the driver's seat to have a go. Then we noticed there was a third fella sat in the back waiting his turn. Sloppy thirds... lovely.
I also saw a very low-budget Batmobile (a Hyundai with fins made of card stuck on the roof and rear wings) pulled over on the A1(M) in rush hour, with the police talking to someone sat in the car who appeared to be dressed as Batman.
First and possibly last time I will put anything from my dashcam on the internet
I was on the A607 driving to Grantham station on a sunny summer morning at around 6:30am.
Something caught my eye heading into the hedgerow: a black animal, Labrador sized but with a long tail. “Funny”, I thought, “that looked like a huge cat”. Didn’t think too much of it until a week or so later when reading the local (Grantham) paper, and there was one of those “Beast of Bodmin Moor” type articles where someone claims they’ve seen a panther in their garden. Normally nonsense, but maybe in this case...
Something caught my eye heading into the hedgerow: a black animal, Labrador sized but with a long tail. “Funny”, I thought, “that looked like a huge cat”. Didn’t think too much of it until a week or so later when reading the local (Grantham) paper, and there was one of those “Beast of Bodmin Moor” type articles where someone claims they’ve seen a panther in their garden. Normally nonsense, but maybe in this case...
Edited by 67Dino on Saturday 21st April 07:03
carboy2017 said:
I have seen people taking a pee by the hard shoulder on the M25 a few times in broad daylight and in full view
2 weeks ago I saw exactly this. There was the usual congestion around Heathrow on a Friday evening. Just as it started easing up slightly, this Pajero pulls over under a bridge and hazards alight. Pulls it out and piss is streaming everywhere within seconds. If he'd have done it at the front of the vehicle I don't think anyone would have clocked it. At the back, they certainly did.
J4CKO said:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3008186,-2.29658...
That help ? I stopped in front of the steps to get out of the way of traffic to sort my contact lens out which was driving me daft.
I bet. He's probably up early today and outside, waiting.That help ? I stopped in front of the steps to get out of the way of traffic to sort my contact lens out which was driving me daft.
It is a weird set up. Has anyone else zoomed in on the window?
80sMatchbox said:
J4CKO said:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3008186,-2.29658...
That help ? I stopped in front of the steps to get out of the way of traffic to sort my contact lens out which was driving me daft.
I bet. He's probably up early today and outside, waiting.That help ? I stopped in front of the steps to get out of the way of traffic to sort my contact lens out which was driving me daft.
It is a weird set up. Has anyone else zoomed in on the window?
It was very brief, weird thing I felt like some kind of peeping Tom after, but I only looked up as I sensed movement, made me jump a bit as was on a road and didn’t expect that, by the time I had registered she had sensibly retired back into the room.
Waited an hour each morning at the correct time for months after and no repeat performance
Best thing I ever experienced from my car was on a day out at Woburn Safari park a few years ago. Driving into the monkey enclosure I spotted a Chrysler 180 in met brown with a vinyl roof immediately in front. If I remember correctly, there where signs around saying on no account stop or open windows. Yes, you've got it, this car then pulls up in front of a troop of monkeys. Well, the little blighters wasted no time and leapt onto the bonnet, 4 people inside giggling at the creatures. Then the main event comes, 3 monkeys jump onto the roof just sitting there for a minute or so, until one takes a fancy to the seam of the vinyl and starts picking at it. Whereupon, the others can't resist what the first does, and start examining the roof as well. Next, one of them grabs a corner and tries and succeeds in tearing up about 10cm or so. The folk inside can hear this and proceed to scream and shout, plus banging on the underside. Wife and me are in stitches, oh, for a camera. The 180 then starts to crawl forward with guests still aboard, as the car nears the exit to the enclosure they jump off. The finale was later when I pulled into a carpark near a cafe to see the driver red faced trying to stick down vinyl with a tube of glue given to him by the staff in the cafe. Cant imaging what he must have said when asking for it. Mind you, those monkeys knew a crap car when they saw it.
Markee68 said:
Sat in walking pace bumper to bumper traffic on the M4 on the way into work one morning. As we all came to a stop glanced over to my left to see the driver of a white van take a swig out of a can of Stella.
That’s bad enough I know, but it was 7.30 in the morning...
That's nothing. I parked next to a car at FoS one year and four lads were knocking back the Skol at that time in the morning. That’s bad enough I know, but it was 7.30 in the morning...
Went round a corner on a country road early one morning and came face to face with two llamas standing by the side of the road. one black, one white. Big buggers they were too. Drove past them very slowly as I didn't want a giant hoof through my roof.
One morning going up the A3 just before Christmas, I noticed a car ahead of me serve sharpish into a lay-by. The drivers door flew open and the driver jumped out to projectile vomit all down the side of his car. Seriously the guy was like a fire hose, never seen anything like it. I'm guessing he'd had good night at the Christmas do.
I wouldn't say it was weird but it was funny for us.
Off to the supermarket with the other half and I opted to sit in the car and play games on the phone. Someone I knew pulled up in a space directly across and dropped off his other half to do the same. I sent him a cheeky text about his hair cut or something and he twigged I could see him. There was a space next to me to he moved into that so we could have a chat.
A lifetime later his other half came out of the supermarket with the shopping. We hadn't really noticed but someone else was now in his original space, also sat in the car waiting for their other half. Unfortunately it was the same make, model and colour of car. She then loaded the shopping into the boot, put the trolly back and happily went and sat right next to a complete stranger. I'm not sure who was most shocked but we were laughing so hard I thought we might do an injury. We wish we had the sense to film it, we'd have loved to see both their faces.
Off to the supermarket with the other half and I opted to sit in the car and play games on the phone. Someone I knew pulled up in a space directly across and dropped off his other half to do the same. I sent him a cheeky text about his hair cut or something and he twigged I could see him. There was a space next to me to he moved into that so we could have a chat.
A lifetime later his other half came out of the supermarket with the shopping. We hadn't really noticed but someone else was now in his original space, also sat in the car waiting for their other half. Unfortunately it was the same make, model and colour of car. She then loaded the shopping into the boot, put the trolly back and happily went and sat right next to a complete stranger. I'm not sure who was most shocked but we were laughing so hard I thought we might do an injury. We wish we had the sense to film it, we'd have loved to see both their faces.
Driving on a twisty country road in Jamaica saw a completely naked woman sat by the side of the road. Also in Jamaica a man came walking towards us in the middle of the road trousers and pants pulled down playing with himself.
Back in the UK saw a very small hatchback trying to do a 3 point turn. Looked at the driver and theres no other way of putting it he was so fat he couldn't turn the wheel properly. I couldn't see how he was safe to drive.
Other way round now, walking down a quiet country road and there was a car parked opposite and facing us. As we got up to it there was a woman in the passenger seat legs apart with a blanket over her legs and the bloke in the drivers seat had his hand between her legs. They just froze and looked at us.
One that wasn't too good was driving around the M25 near Heathrow and there were a few police cars and ambulance parked under a bridge , I looked up the embankment and saw them lifting a body bag down.
Back in the UK saw a very small hatchback trying to do a 3 point turn. Looked at the driver and theres no other way of putting it he was so fat he couldn't turn the wheel properly. I couldn't see how he was safe to drive.
Other way round now, walking down a quiet country road and there was a car parked opposite and facing us. As we got up to it there was a woman in the passenger seat legs apart with a blanket over her legs and the bloke in the drivers seat had his hand between her legs. They just froze and looked at us.
One that wasn't too good was driving around the M25 near Heathrow and there were a few police cars and ambulance parked under a bridge , I looked up the embankment and saw them lifting a body bag down.
Used to do a fair bit of driving about the back roads of Ireland for work years ago. I've lost count of the weird stuff I've seen on the road in the middle of nowhere including coming around a corner to find the entire road covered in potatoes....
Anyway, I had to get up early one morning, must have been about 6:30am in the arse end of nowhere, on a single track road. Right there in the middle of nowhere with not a house within 10 miles was a sofa sitting square in the middle of the road deposited with a nice view out to sea. OK nothing special, maybe someone just dumped it there right.
That would have been right except the sofa had a lazy boy chair next to it, a side table, a lamp and a coat stand. A dressing gown was hanging from the coat stand, and there was a coffee cup, a plate and some TOAST on the coffee table in front of the sofa.
We sat around admiring the view for about fifteen minutes and then drove off, kept expecting to see Beadle pop out and give us a wave. Surreal.
Coming home late one night, noticed this passenger had overstayed his welcome. He'd be walking if that was my car!
Anyway, I had to get up early one morning, must have been about 6:30am in the arse end of nowhere, on a single track road. Right there in the middle of nowhere with not a house within 10 miles was a sofa sitting square in the middle of the road deposited with a nice view out to sea. OK nothing special, maybe someone just dumped it there right.
That would have been right except the sofa had a lazy boy chair next to it, a side table, a lamp and a coat stand. A dressing gown was hanging from the coat stand, and there was a coffee cup, a plate and some TOAST on the coffee table in front of the sofa.
We sat around admiring the view for about fifteen minutes and then drove off, kept expecting to see Beadle pop out and give us a wave. Surreal.
Coming home late one night, noticed this passenger had overstayed his welcome. He'd be walking if that was my car!
Urination and nudity seem to be 80% of this thread so to maintain the theme:
Poland February 1992 close to Krakow in the outside lane of the motorway a guy urinating into the central reservation from our side of the barrier! Passed(!) him at 80mph so was a “did we really just see that” moment from the five of us in the car.....
Brixton November 1994 driving home from the city saw loads of blue lights in the distance (not unusual in Brixton) at the centre of which were three police cars and an ambulance with a very large very naked woman in a phone box and a couple of coppers seemingly trying to talk her out...
Weird the first time but after a few Moscow winters became the norm: Kamaz trucks broken down on the hard shoulder of the MKAD (equivalent of M25) due to frozen diesel with the driver setting a small bonfire underneath the fuel tank to de-gel the contents. Downright scary when stuck in stationary traffic a metre away from the evolving Molotov cocktail.
Poland February 1992 close to Krakow in the outside lane of the motorway a guy urinating into the central reservation from our side of the barrier! Passed(!) him at 80mph so was a “did we really just see that” moment from the five of us in the car.....
Brixton November 1994 driving home from the city saw loads of blue lights in the distance (not unusual in Brixton) at the centre of which were three police cars and an ambulance with a very large very naked woman in a phone box and a couple of coppers seemingly trying to talk her out...
Weird the first time but after a few Moscow winters became the norm: Kamaz trucks broken down on the hard shoulder of the MKAD (equivalent of M25) due to frozen diesel with the driver setting a small bonfire underneath the fuel tank to de-gel the contents. Downright scary when stuck in stationary traffic a metre away from the evolving Molotov cocktail.
Edited by Ex Expat on Monday 23 April 23:28
Edited by Ex Expat on Monday 23 April 23:29
Ex Expat said:
Weird the first time but after a few Moscow winters
I do recall, on occasion in the 1990s, the sight of an S-Class or American SUV, once or twice with no number plates, parked with nonchalance on the pavement. Engine idling.The driver, presumably waiting for "the boss" to return, was at times wearing a brightly-coloured suit. A purple or yellow.
grade2 said:
Best thing I ever experienced from my car was on a day out at Woburn Safari park a few years ago. Driving into the monkey enclosure I spotted a Chrysler 180 in met brown with a vinyl roof immediately in front. If I remember correctly, there where signs around saying on no account stop or open windows. Yes, you've got it, this car then pulls up in front of a troop of monkeys. Well, the little blighters wasted no time and leapt onto the bonnet, 4 people inside giggling at the creatures. Then the main event comes, 3 monkeys jump onto the roof just sitting there for a minute or so, until one takes a fancy to the seam of the vinyl and starts picking at it. Whereupon, the others can't resist what the first does, and start examining the roof as well. Next, one of them grabs a corner and tries and succeeds in tearing up about 10cm or so. The folk inside can hear this and proceed to scream and shout, plus banging on the underside. Wife and me are in stitches, oh, for a camera. The 180 then starts to crawl forward with guests still aboard, as the car nears the exit to the enclosure they jump off. The finale was later when I pulled into a carpark near a cafe to see the driver red faced trying to stick down vinyl with a tube of glue given to him by the staff in the cafe. Cant imaging what he must have said when asking for it. Mind you, those monkeys knew a crap car when they saw it.
Those sods took my aerial off my last car. I wrapped the severed end in black electrical tape to keep it tidy but never replaced it because I only ever used the CD player.I once thought I was staring at the face of a dog that was peering out of a Ford Fiesta van rear window in front of me, and then realised it was about 3 sheep. That was strange.
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